December 25.2001

December 25.2001: Betamountain Forum, Christmas Fanfic

Merry Christmas!

Tried this back in the first year with a couple of cgi forum programs with little success, but I figured it was time to give it a whirl again. Using the old server we used to be on, I've started the Betamountain Forum. To use it, you'll have to register as a user, but then it's all open from there. 180 different profile pictures from the series to choose from, instant messaging/inbox/outbox and other neat things are available. Hopefully it will become a tool for the GR community and those who don't feel like joining the mailing list can use it to interact with the rest of us nuts. Yes, there are pop-ups....

AKK has yet another Christmas fanfic (she never rests, I swear). Check out A Christmas Dream over on her site.

Betamountain "I don't like pop-ups" section Posted 12.25.01

The dirty laundry section that applies mostly to the forum. Aside to what is here, you'll have to find your own way to deal with pop-ups. : ) I've posted this on the forum already, but why not mention it here :)

A note on pop-ups. Yes, there here as this is the old site server. I didn't want to potentially slow down the main site with this forum and this was my decision to avoid that. You can kill each popup as they come (which just means an endless barrage of pop-ups), you can move them down beneath your task bar as far as possible (which just means your browser will lose focus, which I agree with Fatima, just sucks) or you can head over to http://www.webwasher.com and download webwash 3.0. AKK mentioned it yesterday and I'm quite enjoying it. I'm sure there are other banner killer programs. These are just some suggestions. CG (who is responsible for the framework of this site) mentioned that

"Konqueror, an excellent browser, availalbe for most platforms, allows you to allow JavaScript and at the same time disallow pop-up windows. This way you can get rid of the problem entirely. Konqueror supports JavaScript, Java, DOM, CSS, most Netscape plugins (!) and is freely available from http://www.konqueror.org/. You can also easily specify a cookie policy per-site."

And speaking of cookies. You'll need to have either cookies enabled or let the site have cookies on your system (webwash will have to have the site allowed). The cookies are set to expire 360 minutes and if you feel like you're always logging in, this is most likely why. http://www.panicware.com/product_dpps.html - Pop-Up Stopper Pro 1.6